Concur. With Maeda out of the game so early, Dobnak should have gone at least 2 innings. Low and behold, both Rogers and Colome get pushed pretty hard.
Part of Boston, Seattle and now Oakland's success is that they got to play the Twins. It goes both ways. Beat the teams on your schedule. Anything else equates to losing, no matter how you try to excuse it.
It's the bullpen's job to do just that. Good relievers, who can get K's, do it all the time. Until today, the Twins were oh for three scoring on the 10th.
It's because of service time, and I'll give them the benefit of the doubt that it's 2 LHers going for Oakland in the DHer. They had 3 days to get Kirilloff to the west coast if they wanted to, he could have went by horse and buggy.
Garver is a terrible defensive catcher. Weak arm, slow release, questionable game calling skills, and the worst hands you'll see in the big leagues. If he's not an .850 OPS guy, he shouldn't be playing much.